The Euroleague Coaches Committee accused this Thursday the driver of the bus that took Turk Telecom Ankara to the Gran Canaria Arena for a last training session before the Eurocup final against Gran Canaria of having “unprofessional behavior” that led to the neck injury suffered by coach Erdem Can.
The coach of the Turkish team had to be transferred to a hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria after suffer an impact against the windshield of the vehicle leading his team to the scene of the title game. Finally, Can was able to attend the crash, although with a neck brace.
“The EuroLeague Coaches Committee is surprised and shocked for the totally unprofessional behavior of the bus driver who had as his result the injury of our member Erdem Can on the way to the pavilion for the last training session before the Eurocup final,” the organization said in a statement on Thursday.
The Coaches Committee ensures that it has “information” indicating that the driver “did not just use a much longer route” that he wasted “valuable time” to Turk Telecom to prepare for “the most important game of the season” but, after being asked “repeatedly by Can to turn down the excessive volume of the music”, braked “on purpose” to prevent the coach from doing it himself. “Coach Can was injured by hitting his head on the windshield, which broke from that impact,” he added.
“We trust that the Spanish traffic authorities Please get to the bottom of this sad incident as the decisions that bus drivers make should ALWAYS be focused on the overall safety of all passengers. We hope that these types of incidents do not happen again in basketball and in the entire sports community in general,” the committee said.
2023-05-04 17:11:56
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